Videos of the Buffalo mass shooting may haunt social media for years.
Despite years of work to control the spread of such material, videos from the Buffalo attack were still readily available on major platforms like Facebook and Twitter in the days after the shooting. The continued struggle demonstrates how big the challenge is for YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other online services to stamp out the glorification of violence, which is generally banned in most apps’ terms of service.
One way promoters of the video made end-runs around the system was to turn to lesser-known video hosting sites, such as Streamable. On that site alone, the video was viewed 3 million times before it was removed Sunday, The New York TimesStreamable isn’t amongthat are members of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, so it didn’t have access to the forum’s full set of tools major apps use to detect and remove videos of mass shootings. Amazon, which owns Twitch, is a member of the forum.
At the center of the companies’ strategy is a shared database of information about extremist videos. As mass shootings and other violent attacks occur, the 18 services participating in the industry forum add more information to the database, allowing all of the participating companies to know the digital fingerprints of violent videos, detect matches and speed up the takedown process.
“Members will continue to be able to add new hashes of the perpetrator-produced content for as long as they find new versions,” she said.
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